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https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/30/18203551/apple-facebook-blocked-internal-ios-apps
Apple has shut down Facebook’s ability to distribute internal iOS apps, from early releases of the Facebook app to basic tools like a lunch menu. A person familiar with the situation tells The Verge that early versions of Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and other pre-release “dogfood” (beta) apps have stopped working, as have other employee apps, like one for transportation. Facebook is treating this as a critical problem internally, we’re told, as the affected apps simply don’t launch on employees’ phones anymore.

The shutdown comes in response to news that Facebook has been using Apple’s program for internal app distribution to track teenage customers with a “research” app.

That app, revealed yesterday by TechCrunch, was distributed outside of the App Store using Apple’s enterprise program, which allows developers to use special certificates to install more powerful apps onto iPhones. Those apps are only supposed to be used by a company’s employees, however, and Facebook had been distributing its tracking app to customers. Facebook later said it would shut down the app.

This poses a huge issue for Facebook. While Apple provides other tools a company can use to install apps internally, Apple’s enterprise program is the main solution for widely distributing internal apps and services. In an email, a Facebook spokesperson said “I can confirm that this affects our internal apps.”

In a statement given to Recode, Apple said that Facebook was in “clear breach of their agreement with Apple.” Any developer that breaches that agreement, Apple said, has their distribution certificates revoked, “which is what we did in this case to protect our users and their data.” Apple declined to comment on shutting down all of Facebook’s internal apps in an email to The Verge.

Revoking a certificate not only stops apps from being distributed on iOS, but it also stops apps from working. And because internal apps by the same organization or developer may be connected to a single certificate, it can lead to immense headaches like the one Facebook now finds itself in where a multitude of internal apps have been shut down.

Apple and Facebook have already been bickering over privacy, but this is the first instance of Apple taking an action that directly shuts down some of Facebook’s activities. Last March, Apple CEO Tim Cook criticized Facebook’s handling of the Cambridge Analytica data sharing scandal, saying, “I wouldn’t be in this situation” if he were running the company. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg later said the comments were “extremely glib” and spoke of Apple as a company that “work hard to charge you more.”
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https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/...ecret-messages-saying-big-brother-is-watching
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Facebook's virtual reality subsidiary Oculus has shipped tens of thousands of its touch controllers with sinister-sounding messages the company described as “easter eggs.” The messages included phrases like “Big Brother Is Watching You,” “The Masons Were Here,” “This Space for Rent,” and “Hi iFixit! We See You!” iFixit is a company that advocates for right to repair and provides training and materials to help with DIY electronics repair projects.

Oculus co-founder Nate Mitchell broke the news on Twitter. “Unfortunately, some ‘easter egg’ labels meant for prototypes accidentally made it onto the internal hardware for tens of thousands of Touch controllers,” Mitchell said on Twitter. “But those were limited to non-consumer units. While I appreciate easter eggs, these were inappropriate and should have been removed.”
Facebook told Motherboard it was aware of the labels. “They were intended to be removed pre-production, not intended to ship in consumer units,” Facebook spokesperson Johanna Peace said in an email. “Because of a process error, they were not removed. They were meant as easter eggs for internal prototypes only.”
Facebook and Oculus were light on details regarding the process error. “We don’t share personnel details, but we conducted a full review of what happened and examined our processes across the board to see what we could improve,” Peace said. “The important thing to know is that we've fixed our process error so this doesn't happen again.”
 
Here's the thing, when a corporate culture is such that your employees think "big brother is watching you" is a funny message to fuck around with internally, you just KNOW that they're doing some pretty shitty things behind the scenes.

All I'm saying is that I have first hand experience with such a thing.
 
Right, because this was an accident, definitely not a pissed off employee who went rogue.

In all seriousness that photo posted with the story is giving me mad 1984/Walle vibes......dickhead is also wearing running shoes.
 
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This is Facebook letting the truth out bit by bit so the the massive human population can get acclimated to the new distopia.
 
Now it's just a question if this is legitimate lighthearted humor from employees knowing the company internals work and poking fun at it, or if being an employee at a major social media company has just become the new "power-mad police officer" full of people who just want to hurt other people for the sake of it.
 
Am I the only one who thinks this is creepy as shit? Good god, it's like one of those subliminal message videos you find on the rather weirder parts of YouTube if you accidentally manage to go down one of those rabbitholes.
 
This is why you don't hide easter eggs in your unfinished products for fun.

Learned that the hard way when I handed in a programming assignment with a variable called nigger
 
LordKaT said:
Here's the thing, when a corporate culture is such that your employees think "big brother is watching you" is a funny message to fuck around with internally, you just KNOW that they're doing some pretty shitty things behind the scenes.
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Kind of reminds me of Planned Parenthood and "Beam me up Scotty."

Except everyone and their aborted brother knows what PP is all about...
 
Facebook is the part of the simulation that just keeps slapping you across the face with its absurdity.

Like XCOM's hit % RNG. Or anything Alex Jones has ever done.

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The Fool said:
Now it's just a question if this is legitimate lighthearted humor from employees knowing the company internals work and poking fun at it, or if being an employee at a major social media company has just become the new "power-mad police officer" full of people who just want to hurt other people for the sake of it.
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We're talking about Silicon Valley, it's obvious which is the case.
 
Source: Daily Mail

Facebook's shareholders launch bid to oust Mark Zuckerberg and abolish the firm's share structure during annual shareholding meeting - social site has called on its investors to strike it down
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* The company listed the various proposals that will be tabled during the May 30th annual shareholding meeting
  • 'Stockholder Proposal Regarding an Independent Chair' looks to hire an independent executive to replace Zuckerberg as Facebook's chairman
  • Investors controlling roughly $3billion of Facebook stock support the measure but it still has a large probability of not gaining ground
  • The issue stems from Facebook's dual-class share structure - they allow their Class B shares to have 10 times the voting power of their Class A shares
  • Zuckerberg owns roughly 75percent of the class B stock
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Facebook investors are trying to oust Mark Zuckerberg as chairman and also rid themselves of the company's share structure.

In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing from Friday, the company listed the various proposals that will be tabled during the May 30th annual shareholding meeting.

Included in the eight stockholder proposals are two that attempt to create noticeable change at Facebook, Business Insider reports.
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One of the proposals - 'Stockholder Proposal Regarding an Independent Chair' - posits that an independent executive be hired to replace Zuckerberg as Facebook's chairman.

Facebook has asked for its investors to vote the proposal down.

Investors controlling roughly $3 billion of Facebook stock support the measure but it still has a large probability of not gaining ground.

The issue stems from Facebook's dual-class share structure - they allow their Class B shares to have 10 times the voting power of their Class A shares.

Zuckerberg owns roughly 75percent of the class B stock.

The exceptional power is part of the second proposal's aim to squash. It calls for 'fair and appropriate mechanisms through which disproportionate rights of Class B shareholders could be eliminated.'

It added: 'Fake news, election interference, and threats to our democracy -- shareholders need more than deny, deflect, and delay. We urge shareholders to vote FOR a recapitalization plan for all outstanding stock to have one vote per share.'

Facebook has also called for its investors to strike down that proposal.
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Doesn't surprise me, he's incredibly uncharacteristic and given that literally all of his success was based off backstabbing and theft I wouldn't want him around either.
 
This would be more informative if they told us what the stock mix was; since this proposal has any chance at all, the Zuck's 75% control of Class B shares mustn't represent the 50%+1 required for complete control of the company. I seem to recall Google getting slapped down by the FTC over similar share fuckery, to the point where they had to phase out their shares with multiple votes.

That said, there's nothing technically wrong with shares having more or less votes, so I doubt this is going to go anywhere.
 
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